Pittsburgh, PA – Jewish voters are complaining of a poll that, after confirming their religion, asks a series of questions that appear aimed at alarming Jewish voters, including linking Barack Obama to Palestinian terrorist groups.
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Debbie Minden of Pittsburgh described receiving the call from “Research Strategies” late in the afternoon. And a Key West woman, Joelna Marcus, reportedly received a similar-sounding call from the same group, according reports from an Obama-backing organization.
Minden, a psychologist who lives in the Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, said the poll — which came from an identified number — began with relatively inocuous questions about what organizations she belongs to, whether she prefers CNN or Fox News, and how Obama and McCain compare on a range of issues, from national security to hte economy to education.
The caller also asked whether she was Jewish.”
It sounded like a real poll,” Minden, 56, said. Then the caller asked, as she recalled: “Would it change your mind about Obama if you knew that his church was anti-Israel? Would it change you rmind if you knew that the leaders Hamas had endorsed Obama? Would it change your mind if you knew he had met with the leaders of Hamas?”
She also said one question asked whether it would change her mind if she learned he were a Muslim, though she didn’t recall the precise wording.
The poll lasted about 15 minutes, she said.
Marcus gave a similar account to Mike Moore, who wrote in an email that Marcus was asked if she was Jewish, whether she was Orthodox and how often she attends synagogue.
The caller then asked if her opinion of Barack Obama would change if she knew that he had given money to the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
“I said you’re not polling me. This is un-American. This is unacceptable.”
“And then this is the scary part. He said if you had not said that you were Jewish, you would have been disqualified.”
ahhhh finally some decent pollers
The MCCain campaign is getting down in the mud lying in ads. They can not defend their policies so the Republicans have to fight dirty and spread lies. McCain advise Phip Graham is the poster boy for deregulation in the markets and we say what happened today in the stock market. Lehman Gone Poof
Whats wrong with those questions? Other then him being a Muslim, every other questionable statement was factual.
Besides these are research opinion questions, most likely to determine what Jewish voters care about.. Nothing wrong with doing a little research on the Jewish vote… I wonder myself sometimes if the democratic party had a former Hamas member running for office how many Jews would support them. I think more then 50% because of the “grandfathered in” Jewish vote for the dem party.
The facts speak for themselves, fellows.
What you see (from his past), is what you get.
G-d forbid. How can you be so blind?
Any Jew who would vote for Obama has to be completely insane.
The McCain camp was smeared a few years back during the South Carolina primary. Callers were asked whether or not they would vote for McCain if they knew that he had an illegitimate black child; that question was phrased that way because there is a very large percentage of white voters in South Carolina who do not believe that whites and blacks should marry and/or have children together. What is particularly disturbing about this question (setting aside the issue of racism for a moment) is that the child in question was actually the dark-skinned daughter that McCain and his wife adopted from Asia.
Because of this misleading line of questioning of potential Republican voters, McCain lost the primary in that state that year. It’s too bad that his political operatives are using the same tactic against Obama.
OBAMA and Rev. Write
No Jew should ever Vote for That….
VOTE SMART
McCAIN PALIN…..
Lock & Load
this was not a poll, it was a political telephone call for McCain, republication dirty tricks.
After 8 years of Bush not sure how any sane person could vote for the republican party look as the mess they created, we will be paying for their policies for years and maybe generations to come.
Anyone who talks to poll takers without hanging up the phone on them needs to get a life
Poll or no polls the situation is like it is. So take away the polls and there will be no situation. Git gezugt?
ever try to have a conversation with some of these old secular jews? oy! what amazes me is that we yiddelach are among the smartest people in the world (sorry antisemites, it’s fact). how the *#&
! could it be, then, that people who know so much yiddish could be so stupid?!
Anonymous 9/15, 10:41 PM mentioned that McCain lost voters to George W. Bush in the South Carolina primaries 8 years ago due to push polling (the name for this technique, in which voters are polled in a way that’s intended to influence their votes rather than elicit their opinions) regarding his adopted daughter. He’s correct, but here’s the rest of the story:
George W. Bush’s campaign advisor in 2000 was Karl Rove. This push polling would not have happened without Rove being aware of it. Now Karl Rove is working for the McCain campaign. And Rove recently appeared on the Bill O’Reilly show talking about how a lot of people don’t know what a great person is, citing John & Cindy’s adoption of a Bangladeshi girl as proof of McCain’s great character.
Formerlyfrum: With a name like yours, your warped opinion is quite obvious. You’d do anything against those you left.
Over 20 years ago I was a Democratic organizer for my election districts in Virginia. I polled a lot, but I always introduced myself with my real name and said I was representing the county Democratic party. Most people — even the few Republicans in my districts — were quite happy to talk and respond to my questions. And for several years in a row, I called every single election correctly based on my polling. I would NEVER use tactics such as these that were used against McCain in 2000 and that some of his supporters are using today.
Amazing how many self hating Jews would actually consider voting for an anti-smite (Obsama), just in order to look liberal and up with the times.
Wake up peeps, the times when democrats served the Jewish interest are long gone.
Charlie Hall, that’s because your name isn’t Karl Rove.
The point isn’t whether Obama would be “good for the Jews”; the point is that push polling is a deceptive way to smear a candidate while pretending to be an objective pollster. Given that McCain was himself the victim of this technique in 2000, it’s disappointing that he’d resort to it now.
Did anyone see the new Siena poll out today; Among Jews in New York, McCain is ahead of Obama 54-32, almost two to one.
Despit the push for Obama and smear tactics against Palin by the Jewsih establishment, Jewish papers like the Jewish Week, and Jewish Politicos, Am Yisroel has activited its innate Jadar and we know who are friends are.
We know they are Not, Wright, Ayers, Pfleger, Carter, Ross, Biden etc etc.
Except for Jews with a vested interest like Koch who worries about gay rights, Jews are overwhelmingly for McCain.
The number is probably even higher than the poll since many Jews are ashamed to say they will not vote for an African American or a Democrat.
The Erev Rav will vote for Obama, Jews for McCain
The identity of the organization that was doing the push polling has been identified: The Republican Jewish Coalition.